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Almost three quarters of supply chain and logistics leaders see technology as fundamental or highly important to their organization’s growth strategy in the face of challenges such as tariff barriers, supply chain disruption and geopolitical instability, according to a study by Descartes Systems Group.
What Companies are Doing to Tackle Escalating Global Supply Chain Challenges also showed that 36% cited global trade intelligence as the top capability required to deliver the ...
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Rhenus Warehousing Solutions has extended its relationship with Blue Yonder to implement the digital supply chain specialist’s Warehouse Management solution globally. Rhenus, which operates at over 180 sites in over 20 countries, will be able to implement and realize specific customer requirements worldwide quickly and ...
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Airfreight general sales agency ECS Group is to use CargoAi’s CargoCoPilot API to digitalize requests and quotations. The solution uses generative AI to automate manual email processing for ECS Group’s operational and sales teams across 23 countries.
ECS Group needed to streamline the overwhelming volume of ...
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Supply chain visibility specialist FourKites has launched an Intelligent Control Tower, which it describes as a radical departure from backward-looking planning and reporting systems. Powered by AI, it can take autonomous action across complex supply chain workflows, in addition to creating insights, assessing risk, and ...
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Self-driving buses should soon be coming to the Belfast Harbour Estate. Officials from the harbour have visited automotive engineering partner HORIBA MIRA to observe testing of the Harlander, Northern Ireland’s first autonomous passenger vehicle, ahead of its delivery to Belfast in March.
Harlander is Northern Ireland’s ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo has a deal with airfreight unit load device (ULD) manager Unilode to digitalise its fleet of over 42,000 pieces of equipment. Under the largest ULD digitalisation programme ever undertaken by an airline, Qatar Airways will use Unilode’s capabilities to gain data-driven insights ...
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University of Cambridge spin-off company spinout RoboK has secured £1 million funding from UK Research and Innovation as part of the PALLETS consortium, which aims to lower AI adoption barriers in UK ports and warehouses.
PALLETS (Proactive AI-powered Solutions for Logistics Efficiency, Transparency and Safety), led ...
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HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) director of Customs Policy and Strategy, Alex Pienaar, explains what it means for business and how to prepare.
From 31 January, businesses moving goods from the European Union (EU) to Great Britain (GB) will need to comply with new UK safety ...
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Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) has launched an ultra-thin cargo tracking label. Only slightly larger than a credit card, the G+D Smart Label proposition has been jointly developed by G+D in conjunction with its hardware partner, Sensos for a range of applications. These include parcel delivery and shipping, ...
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On a scale of one to ten, the air cargo industry is currently at just three when it comes to adopting AI-assisted decision-making, said Cédric Millet, president of industry tech firm CargoTech.
He says that AI (artificial intelligence) is only sporadically used in different segments of ...
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